Thornton v. Department of Employment Security

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “for a single 9 incident to suffice, it must be extremely severe” (citation modified)
• alleging that she quit her job because of her coworkers’ 12 “abusive behavior, intimidation, humiliation and lies about [her] performance[]”
• explaining that a claim for hostile work environment requires a plaintiff to show that “(1) he was subjected to verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature; (2) the conduct was unwelcome; and (3
• finding “[r]easonable jurors could 24 decide that [Defendant’s] manager condoned the customer’s conduct and conveyed that 25 sexual harassment would be tolerated in the salon because she took no action to stop it— 26 such as requiring the customer to leave the premises immediately.”
• “The comments here fall far short of that mark. 18 Indeed, we have deemed much harsher comments and actions insufficient to create a hostile work 19 environment.”
• “A single incident of harassment can 2 support a claim of hostile work environment ... but for a single incident to suffice, it ‘must be 3 extremely severe.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).